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  • image SM Adam volume 23/232

Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/232

Purpose

Preliminary design for a chimneypiece, ND

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with Doric pilaster styles ornamented with a fan of foil, which has an apron consisting of a mask and a festoon of calyx, from which suspends a wreath enclosing a rosette and drop calyx. The capitals contain rosette roundels. The frieze has a central tablet ornamented with an urn, set within an oval and flanked by festoons. The tablet is flanked by Hippocampi(?) and arabesques. Above the frieze there is a band of dentils and the mantel is ornamented with a band of laurel leaf tips

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

232 and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • ND
    ND

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (346x216)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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